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From LifeSite...

Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman to head the US Episcopal Church (ECUSA), has adopted a unique vision for the Episcopal church: a church not “interested in replenishing their ranks by having children.” 

In an interview with New York Times Magazine, Bishop Jefferts Schori conjectured that the Episcopal Church’s now only 2.2 million faithful “used to be larger percentagewise”. However now, she says, “Episcopalians tend to be better-educated and tend to reproduce at lower rates than some other denominations. Roman Catholics and Mormons both have theological reasons for producing lots of children.” 

The response provoked this query from NYT reporter Deborah Solomon: “Episcopalians aren’t interested in replenishing their ranks by having children?” 

“No. It’s probably the opposite,” responded Jefferts Schori. “We encourage people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not use more than their portion.”...

A huge rift looms over Jefferts Schori’s head, as her election has signaled to US conservative Episcopalians that the ECUSA will continue to push a pro-homosexual agenda. The Christian Post reports the Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield has urged his diocese to vote to split from ECUSA saying, "The Episcopal Church has become an apostate to the point of heresy.” Also, Bishop Iker of Fort Worth and six other American bishops have asked Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican Communion, to appoint a separate leader for their dioceses, instead of Jefferts Schori.

The unscripturally-placed "bishop" angered Catholics and Mormons by implying that they had more children because they were less intelligent. Domenico Bettinelli, jr, former editor of Catholic World Report is quoted as replying, “...when my kids are paying for the good bishopess's Social Security in 30 years, I won't hold it against her.”

From the Seattle Post Intelligencer...

In the two decades since Washington families successfully fought for the right to teach their children themselves, thousands of kids have been educated at their own kitchen tables. But in the last 10 years, homeschooling has quietly evolved.

Now, more parents are joining public school partnerships, or "alternative learning programs," to supplement their home lessons -- and more school districts are reaching out to them, offering such programs as the fast-growing Homeschool Resource Center in North Seattle....

Debbie Kyllo, who is homeschooling four of her children, said she enjoys being able to play such an active role in their education. When they're at the Homeschool Resource Center, she's able to sit in on classes and discuss academics with teachers, without feeling like she's interfering or pestering them. "I don't know if I would be that involved if they were going to another type of school," she said....

[Janice Hedin, a member of the Washington Homeschool Organization advocacy committee] and others who pioneered homeschooling in the state during the 1980s are dismayed at the number of families shifting away from true home-based instruction. They worry that districts are offering hybrid homeschool programs simply to lure students back into the public school system, to boost their enrollment figures and to receive more money from the state.

I know homeschooling can be hard, and offering help from government schools is sooooo tempting, but sometimes the strings you may never realize are attached to such offers are not worth it. Having said that, not all school districts are alike, and I've even seen some rural, out-of-the-way schools that have managed to fall beneath the ACLU and the NEA's radar and actually do a fairly good job at a decent education. So it's possible that such programs may be a sincere attempt to help. But remember there's a reason one of the most frightening sentences in the English language is, "Hi! I'm from the Government and I'm here to help!"

This isn't the main topic of the article, but I felt these paragraphs worth noting.

From WorldNetDaily...

Michael Farris, cofounder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, has called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect the right of parents to educate their children at home, in light of what is developing in Europe, and the growing influence of international court conclusions in the U.S. 

His concern is that if the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child were ratified by the Senate or adopted by the federal courts as enforceable international law, American homeschooling could be banned. 

He notes that the parents' rights to control their children's education never were written into the U.S. Constitution because the Founding Fathers recognized that it was the Bible that gave parents a God-given right to educate their children at home or in a private or government school.

Here's a dirty little secret you won't here the Main Stream Media ever mention: Amending the US Constitution is no longer allowed. Oh, yeah, technically it's still part of the Constitution, but realistically, Liberals have all but torn it from the document. Any time any Constitutional Amendment has been proposed in the past few decades, the MSM (the self-appointed propaganda arm of the DNC and Liberals) flood the air with the hackneyed phrase "it will most certainly open the door to..." then ramble on about whatever idiotic thing they think the general public would oppose the most. 

Of course in the 70s and 80s the Liberals were all for the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, and came close to getting it ratified until Reagan put a stop to it. But Reagan didn't claim it would "open the door to..." anything, he simple said they had a better way of getting the same goal accomplished. He, of course, was speaking of the public goal of leveling the playing field in employment and education for men and women, not the real goal of Feminists and Liberals of imposing a gender neutral society that would ultimately force the acceptance of homosexual marriages, homosexual adoption and the gamut of the Liberals plateful of immoral legislation. Obviously they gave up on the Amendment strategy, and changed their tactics to activist judges imposing their agenda on the country.

Would one Amendment open the door to a pantheon of wacky Amendments? Well, it never has in the past. The US Constitution in its 219 year lifespan has been amended (not counting the first ten, the Bill of Rights) exactly 17 times. Going through them some seem to be a bit trivial (Amendment 22 limits the terms of the President to 2. A stab at FDR by Republicans) but none really off the wall. So why would we assume society would suddenly go "Amendment happy" were another to be added? Obviously they won't, but since Liberals have found a convenient route around the Constitution via activist judges, and Conservatives prefer legitimate means of implementing laws, the continuing lie that one Amendment will cause the collapse of civilization serves Liberals. 

The truth is with the damage to the Constitution done by activist judges, we are in desperate need of a number of Amendments in order to codify the balance of powers as well as the real intent of the Constitution. Most people know this, but whenever there's any real attempt at beginning the process the MSM marketing strategy kicks into high gear and the scare tactics begin.

I wish Mike Farris well, but unless there's some kind of Herculean marketing campaign launch to accompany such an effort, it will be futile.

What follows is an excerpt from a frightening "news" story. I've interspersed it with my comments.

From the Salina (KS) Journal...

"Jesus Camp," now showing at the Salina Art Cinema, is a documentary about the evangelical church movement, and teaching and preaching to young children of that faith. 

No, that's false. It's a propaganda piece portraying one woman's attempt to teach her version of Christianity. Since she refers to herself as a "pastor" and "reverend" she obviously likes to pick and choose which scriptures she'll follow. She is in no way typical of Evangelical Christians.

The film tracks several children from a church in Lee's Summit, Mo., a Kansas City suburb, as they prepare for and attend a religious summer camp at Devils Lake, N.D. 

Time magazine reviewed the film, released in September, with the headline: "A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood."

And they're obviously showing their lack on bias with that headline, right.

 Critics charge the film depicts indoctrination of children to hold conservative political beliefs....

Which would be different from almost any government school's indoctrination into Liberalism and the religion of Evolution, how?

But it's Fischer, interspersed with clips on the opposite end of the political spectrum, from a Methodist minister and Air America liberal talk show host Mike Papantionio, that spark the most lively moments in the film. 

Papantionio tells his audience of listeners that the 25 percent of Americans who describe themselves as evangelicals -- about 80 million people -- are "very tenacious and they elbow their way into positions of power in America. 

Oh, sorry, we didn't get the memo about Christians being stripped of their rights as citizens. 

"That is a group that is committed to, like I say, building a government that they're comfortable with," Papantionio says. 

As opposed to Papantino, the ACLU, the DNC, the Main Stream Media...I could go on and on. What is wrong with a US citizen participating in their right (and duty) to participate and influence the government?

"We've been asleep at the wheel as this conservative, political fundamentalist element has gained too much control and power in this country." ...

Yeah, right. The anti-Christian bigots have been asleep at the wheel. If this is what they do asleep at the wheel, we're in serious trouble if they actually wake up. 

"Where do you cross that line between sharing your faith with your children and someone strapping a bomb on their body because they believe they're going to go directly to heaven?" Shawn Crawford asked. Crawford was one of Sunday's discussion leaders, together with his brother, Brance, and the Rev. Frank Coady, pastor of St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church....

Oh, man. Another Rosie O'Donnell clone. How can someone actually be stupid enough, ignorant enough, dimwitted enough to equate telling a child about Jesus with suicide bombers? This guy's the scary one. If he's so willing to assign such evil to the act of sharing the Gospel, imagine what kind of totalitarian legislation he and other loonies like him could be duped into supporting. 

"For me personally, that line has always been predicated on fear. When religion is predicated on fear, bad things are going to happen," Shawn said. "Because you're fearful, you're willing to do things you wouldn't normally do, to remove what's causing that fear." 

Okay, that explains it. The Bible warns, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Proverbs 1:7) That is Satan's oldest trick, convincing people that they needn't fear God.

A statistic from "Jesus Camp" states 75 percent of homeschooled children are children of evangelical families. In answer to a question from the audience, Shawn Crawford said he thinks the popularity of homeschooling is growing because of the assumptions public schools are teaching.... 

Well, duh.

A well-rounded education comes from diversity and interacting with others, Brance Crawford said. 

Depends on your definition of diversity. Would Brance welcome the "diversity" provided by skin-heads, the Klan, pedophiles, Al Quada in government schools? I'd imagine he wouldn't, nor would most people. So obviously he wouldn't define "diversity" as equal exposure to all points of view, yet he isn't all that clear on which points of view he'd exclude. 

"When, all of a sudden, did we get this horrible fear about education and what was taught?" he asked. 

As dumb as his brother, isn't he. When they started teaching perversion as acceptable, dude! That's when.

"I don't think I would have enjoyed hearing from my mom, every day, five days a week. Would she have done a good a job or would there have been an agenda? I wouldn't have had a better view of trying to accept and understand everyone's diversity in thinking." 

LOL, everyone's diversity. Is he actually deluded enough to think that government school allow children to hear all sides? When was the last time you heard of a government school having a former homosexual speak to the students? For decades now we've been trying to get the government schools to simply make the slightest mention that there are real, legitimate, authentic scientists that have problems with Darwinism, but that's been censored all along.

He fears his mom might have an agenda, but the NEA, he's okay with. Where do they find these people.